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| Quote for category - joy |
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
- in joy
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be
the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
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If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh
with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is
harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any
moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
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The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't
have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't
need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who
we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy.
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to
give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage
to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good
light.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to
extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.
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... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is
asleep upon your bed.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup
that was burned in the potter's oven?
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